C. whereas some issues raised in the course of the discussions on the 2010 discharge in the Committee on Budgetary Control went beyond the specific 2010 issues, and were included in wide-ranging questions from the Committee, this resolution remains principally focussed on the budget implementation and discharge for the financial year 2010, whilst acknowledging that approaches to budgetary matters are a subject for wider discussion particularly in the working group being established to consider European Parliament costs and possible s ...[+++]avings, and in line with the 2013 budget guidelines adopted on 8 February 2012, seeking to make significant long-term savings, through an independent evaluation of the European Parliament budget leading to proposals by the end of 2012 followed by their rapid implementation,

33. Acknowledges that, out of the 32 recommendations of the IAS, one is ‘critical’ on the implementing procedures involving experts and twelve are ‘very important’ mainly on human resources management, on management of staff's conflicts of interest and on other procedures supporting the provision of scientific evaluation for human medicines in the Agency; calls, therefore, on the Agency to inform the discharge authority about the precise content of these recommendations without delay; urges the Agency to rapidly implement the IAS recommendations and to provide the discharge ...[+++] authority with a complete overview of measures taken and implemented to properly address these recommendations by 30 June 2011; asks, in addition, the Court of Auditors to monitor and inform the discharge authority of the efficiency of the measures taken;

Finally, a new element this year is that the principal findings and recommendations in the Special Reports adopted by the Court since the last discharge are summarised in the chapters according to the wishes of this Parliament.

The consistent advice to the Commission is that the stress and risk to animals in transport arises primarily from three factors: travelling time, loading and unloading of animals and the conditions in which they are transported – ventilation, humidity, density and so on.

It was, therefore, necessary to deal with this issue of the safety of bulk carriers, and it is known that bad loading and unloading methods are considered to be one of the main causes of these tragic accidents.

The discussion revealed that difficulties remain, mainly in connection with: - the possibility of joint disposal (hazardous waste mixed with non- hazardous waste); - preferential treatment (exemption) for small landfills or landfills with difficult access; - waste acceptance criteria.